The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-02-17
CITY MATTERS IN GENERAL.
To-Day,s Doings.

To-Day's Doings
GRAND ARMY ENCAMPMEi.r, Tomlinson Hail.
morning and afternoon.
ORGANIZATION OF BASEBALL ASSOCIATION
Bates House, 7:30 o'clock F. NJ.
MEETING OF TIMERS, to organize union, City
Courtroom 730 o'clock p. NJ.
GRAND OPERA-HoUSE-.T White Slave, even
ing.
TIE MUsEUM-"The Mascotte," afternoon and
evening.
THE CAsINO-Howards .'Old Kentucky Home
Minstrels,' afternoon and evening
In Brief
Licenses to marry were issued yesterday to
Louis G.. Riley aud Flora Hensley, Albert D.
Bowen and Ella J. Morse
John Kish, a crazy inmate of the county asy
lum, escaped yesterday, and the officers have
been unable to find him.
The meeting of the tin-workers to consider the
question of better wages, to have been held last
night, will be held tonight in the city court
room.
The block on East Washington street occupied
By Bambergers hat store, Craigs candy store
and Kuhns tailor-shop sold by Andrew w.
McOuat to Carl Won Hake. yesterday, for
$3s, OO0
The Golf Brewing Company. OF Aurora this
State, are trying to purchase the old Ferguson
pork house. at the lower eEd of Kentucky ave-
nue., for the purpose of utilizing it for brewing
purposes.
Eleven hundred dollars were yesterday paid
into the county treasury by the surrounding
| counties on account of suits brought here on
| change of venue. Hendricks county alone paid
over $500.
Prof r. J. Radford, late president of Eureka
College. Illinois, will lecture, on Friday even
ing, at Central Christian Church, on Progress"
under the auspices of the auxiliary of the Chris
tian Womans Board of Missions.
The Young Mems Christian Literary Society
praise and jubilee meeting, at Blackford street
M. T.. Church, on Saturday night, will be ad-
| dressed by Revs. r. V. Hunter. S. F. Anderson.
w. +. Sheridan, and other ministers Of this city
The County Commissioners yesterday rescnd-
| ed their former action prohibiting cows from
| running at large throughout the county. Their
action was brought about by petition present
ed and signed by nearly all the members Of the
Marion County Agricultural Society.
| The Walter Sweeney Telegraph and Tele-
phone Switch Company, of Terre Haute, was in
corporated under State laws yesterday. The
company controls electrical patents that are to
be applied to telegraph and telephone wires. The
capital stock is $l2 000 and the directors are n.
K Elliott, W. w. Ray, NJ. II. Waters, p j.
/ kaufman and L. B. Thomas
| A STREET RAILWAY TO CROWN HILL
| A street-car line to Crown Hill Cemetery is
again being talked about, and yesterday the
| street railway committee of the Council in
/ spected the route of the proposed line, and will
| submit report at the next meeting of the
| Council.
A pAPER-HANGERs FALL.
Peter E. Deery, paper hanger in the employ
of Albert Gall, while at work on the ceiling of a
room in Fred. Fahney's new house, on North
fell from his scaffold. and. alighting his head,
was seriously, and perhaps fatally. hurt
| FILING DocTORED DEMOCRATIC RECORDS.
| The proceedings of the General Assembly's
joint convention OH the day Robinson voted for
Turpie, as taken from the Senate journal, were
filed IN the Secretary of States office, yesterday
afternoon, by the Secretary of the Senate The
document was officially stamped and placed
| among the records of tho office.
INCREASE OF STATE FAIR PREMIUMS.
The State Board Of Agriculture. at its session
yesterday, increased many of the premiums Of
fered on live stock, particularly in the depart
| ments for cattle and horses. During the after
noon the board visited the stockyards in body
| to witness the Culbertson cattle SALE The work
of revising the premium-list will probably be
completed to-day.
CLOSE OF THE BLACKFORD-STREET REVIVAL.
The series Of revival meetings that have beer
in progress for more than six weeks at the
Blackford-street NJ E. Church closed last night
The meetings resulted in l64 conversions and 16(
| accessions, representing all ages. In many in
stances whole families have been converted ani
brought into the church. The meetings have
been conducted by the pastor.
A RUNAWAY BOY KILLED
Three weeks since Charles Hamlin the four
teen year old son of Charles Hamlin, ST., re
siding at the corner of Meridian and Wilkinl
street, left home without the consent of hi
parents. Last evening Mr. Hamiin received
telegram from Staunton, Miss, stating that his
son had been killed by the cars. The remainl
will be brought here tor burial
MEETING OF BASEBALL ENTHUSIASTS.
The se-ball outlook is SO favorable to this
city that meeting Of the stockholders and in
terested persons has been called to meet at tn,
parlors of the Bates House this evening, at 73t
o'clock, to effect a permanent organization ani
elect officers. Delegates to the meeting of tn.
League arbitration committee will also be SO
lected, and for this reason as large an attend
ance possible is desired.
BUILDINGS TO BE ERECTED IN THE SPRING.
With the coming of spring the expected build
ing boom Is beginning to appear. The Contra
chair factory, yesterday, took out permit for
$4,000 structure on the site of the old factory
recently destroyed by fire; H. Holzhauseu,
permit to erect $12, 600 store-house at the cor
! ner of Tennessee and Twelfth streets, and DR.
! j. L. Thompson, to build residence o.
Illinois, between Ohio and New York streets, t
! cost So, 500.
A CLERK WORKS WITHOUT PAY.
Attorney general Kitchener, in reply to CUES
tions submitted to him by the State Auditor, r
latine to the payment of the clerk of the Blu
reau of Sanitary Statistics Mr.. ]. D. Walker
whose appointment by the Secretary of Stat
DR.. Metcalf. of the health board, refuses to rec
ognize, yesterday gave an opinion to the effec
| that the Auditor must issue his warrant tn tn